CVE-2024-57577
Published: 16 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2024-57577 is a medium-severity Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787) vulnerability in Tenda Ac18 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 5.7 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 46.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-53626
Vulnerability details
Tenda AC18 V15.03.05.19 was discovered to contain a stack overflow via the speed_dir parameter in the formSetSpeedWan function.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Stack overflow in the web interface function formSetSpeedWan via speed_dir parameter enables remote exploitation of a public-facing application on the Tenda AC18 router.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Platform-independent managed code eliminates the need for unchecked native buffer copies that are the root cause of classic buffer overflows.
Out-of-bounds writes that corrupt control flow or inject shellcode are rendered non-executable by the same memory protections.